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''It is the nakedness of drawing that I like,'' Philip Guston once said. Drawing, part of a back-to-basics ethos, helped him to negotiate the transition from Abstract Expressionism to a more figurative style. During his most restless and embattled period, from 1966 to 1968, he abandoned painting entirely and made hundreds of drawings, some as simple as a commalike swipe of an ink brush on an otherwise blank piece of paper. ''PHILIP GUSTON: WORKS ON PAPER,'' opening on Friday at the MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM, is the first retrospective of his drawings in two decades. The show was organized by the Kunstmuseum in Bonn and the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich. The Morgan is its only stop in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the `Works on Paper,' an art exhibition which was held in New York, New York.